cophinus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “basket”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cophinus m (genitive cophinī); second declension

  1. hamper; basket
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate John.6.13:
      Collegerunt ergo, et impleverunt duodecim cophinos fragmentorum ex quinque panibus hordeaceis, quae superfuerunt his qui manducaverant.
      Therefore they collected them, and filled twelve baskets of pieces from the five barley loaves which had remained to those who had eaten.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cophinus cophinī
genitive cophinī cophinōrum
dative cophinō cophinīs
accusative cophinum cophinōs
ablative cophinō cophinīs
vocative cophine cophinī

Descendants

References

  • “cophinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cophinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "cophinus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “cophinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cophinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cophinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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